President George W. Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Nearly five years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, an exhaustive examination of the record shows that the statements were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses...Click here to read the shocking/depressing truth about how America was duped into diving into a quagmire that has cost it so dearly in both treasure and blood. That, dear reader, without accomplishing a damn thing to make the Middle East or America itself safer from the threat of terrorism.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
In case integrity matters
The Center for Public Integrity has published a devastating indictment of President George Bush and his closest advisers, which documents the avalanche of prevarications that launched the (undeclared) war in Iraq. Appropriately, it is entitled, "False Pretenses."
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Hello
Have you had enough of petitions, rallies, and protests that have not worked? The Republican party and their conservative members appears insulated from the public and unresponsive to the public. However their contributors do not appear insulated from the public and can collapse under pressure to a withering telephone campaign threatening mass boycotts of their products until they get their friends at the GOP to do what we want.
Would you and your organization consider joining these telephone campaigns and spreading the word to your membership, and fellow progressive groups in your newsletter? I have created these campaigns to peacefully take back America. After you have made these phone calls please send me email to info@democratz.org with the subject CALLED.
Thank you.
http://www.democratz.org
Get as many people to make these 3 phone calls.
Call GOP contributor and war contractor General Electric Corporation at 800 386 1215 or 203 373 2211 and tell the person who answers, that you want the GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt to get Bush to end the war in Iraq and then Bush
resign with Cheney and until that happens you will not buy any GE products and that you will tell your friends about this.
Call GOP contributor Rite Aid Corporation at 1-800-325-3737
and tell the person to get the CEO to get the congress to enact HR 676
Single payer universal health care and repeal Medicare Part D and place the drug benefit in Medicare Part B covering 80% of drugs with no extra premiums, no extra deductibles, no means tests, no coverage gaps, and remove the means test for Medicare Part B and until that happens, you
won't buy ANYTHING from Rite Aid Pharmacies and that you will tell
your friends about this.
Call GOP contributor Wendy's restaurants at 614 764-3553 and Tell the person in public relations that you want their CEO to get the congress to help enact a $10/HR MIN. WAGE into law and until this happens you will not go to a Wendy's Restaurant and that you will tell your friends about this.
I set up a progressives forum for progressives and liberals
only. Get as many progressives and liberals to join as you
can.
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I do not seek donations. You can use the board for free.
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